topic Factor analysis on a combination of binary, polytomous ordinal, and continuous items in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Factor-analysis-on-a-combination-of-binary-polytomous-ordinal/m-p/116726#M24105 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Is it possible to perform factor analysis on a combination of binary, polytomous ordinal, and continuous items in SAS?&nbsp; Would I be better off doing this in Mplus? </P><P></P><P>Thanks so much!</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:35:22 GMT jmdecu 2012-11-04T18:35:22Z Factor analysis on a combination of binary, polytomous ordinal, and continuous items https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Factor-analysis-on-a-combination-of-binary-polytomous-ordinal/m-p/116726#M24105 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Is it possible to perform factor analysis on a combination of binary, polytomous ordinal, and continuous items in SAS?&nbsp; Would I be better off doing this in Mplus? </P><P></P><P>Thanks so much!</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:35:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Factor-analysis-on-a-combination-of-binary-polytomous-ordinal/m-p/116726#M24105 jmdecu 2012-11-04T18:35:22Z Re: Factor analysis on a combination of binary, polytomous ordinal, and continuous items https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Factor-analysis-on-a-combination-of-binary-polytomous-ordinal/m-p/116727#M24106 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You might look at PROC PLS.&nbsp; This procedure accommodates a CLASS statement (which would cover the binary and ordinal data), and continuous data.&nbsp; That is about all I can help with as it does not accommodate rotations, etc. that seem to be critical to factor analysis.&nbsp; If you are patient, PROC CALIS is available for confirmatory factor analysis, but I have never used it for that, so I don't know if the binary and ordinal variables would be handled the way you want them to be.</P><P></P><P>You might consider reposting this in the Statistical Procedures forum, as there may be someone over there who could help.</P><P>Steve Denham</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:23:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Factor-analysis-on-a-combination-of-binary-polytomous-ordinal/m-p/116727#M24106 SteveDenham 2012-11-05T13:23:52Z